ReviewNutrition reviews2020
The Western diet: a blind spot of eating disorder research?-a narrative review and recommendations for treatment and research.
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- Neurobiological insights into the effects of ultra-processed food on lipid metabolism and associated mental health conditions: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Association between ultraprocessed foods consumption, eating disorders, food addiction and body image: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Eating disorders among international migrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- Collective responsibility and ecological thinking in eating disorders: moving beyond individualistic models of illness and recovery.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- A unified theory of restrictive and addictive eating: a life course model integrating generational transmission, neurodevelopmental risk, and ultra-processed food use disorder-a theoretical review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with disordered eating symptoms and low-quality diet in adults with obesity.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2026Article
- Bifidobacterium longum and prebiotic interventions restore early-life high-fat/high-sugar diet-induced alterations in feeding behavior in adult mice.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Providing alternative fuel for the brain in anorexia nervosa: a review of the literature on ketones and their effects on metabolism and the brain.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Plant-based dietary indices association with appetite, appetite regulating peptides and gut microbiota in healthy women: a cross-sectional study.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Fifteen Years of NOVA Food-Processing Classification: "Friend or Foe" Among Sustainable Diet Indicators? A Scoping Review.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
- The association between cumulative adverse childhood experiences and ultra-processed food addiction is moderated by substance use disorder history among adults seeking outpatient nutrition counseling.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Validation of the Chilean version of the Yale food addiction scale 2.0 in a non-clinical sample.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Association of Dietary Habits with Eating Disorders among Latvian Youth Aged 18-24.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with adiposity, but not with metabolic indicators in a prospective cohort study of Chilean preschool children.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health: Where Do Eating Disorders Fit into the Puzzle?Nutrients · 2024Review
- Dismantling the myth of "all foods fit" in eating disorder treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Food addiction in patients on weight loss treatment.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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- Western diet leads to aging-related tumorigenesis via activation of the inflammatory, UPR, and EMT pathways.Cell death & disease · 2021Article
- Considering Food Addiction through a Cultural Lens.Current addiction reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Over the last 50 years, in parallel with the obesity epidemic, the prevalence of eating disorders has increased and presentations have changed. In this narrative review, we consider recent research exploring the implications of changing patterns of food consumption on metabolic and neurobiological pathways, a hitherto neglected area in eating disorder research. One of the major changes over this time has been the introduction of ultra-processed (NOVA-4) foods, which are gradually replacing unprocessed and minimally processed foods. This has resulted in the increased intake of various sugars and food additives worldwide, which has important metabolic consequences: triggering insulin and glucose response, stimulating appetite, and affecting multiple endocrine and neurobiological pathways, as well as the microbiome. A paradigm shift is needed in the conceptual framework by which the vulnerability to, and maintenance of, different eating disorders may be understood, by integrating recent knowledge of the individual metabolic responses to modern highly processed foods into existing psychological models. This could stimulate research and improve treatment outcomes.
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